>>100707378
I actually decided to look at Gaia to see if /a/ was exaggerating about how bad it was. The posters were all faggots and children and the layout was pure eyecancer.
It made me feel lucky to have /a/.

Current places in internet to discuss anime:
/a/ - heere
Gaya - was not relevant for multiple years already
MAL -metacritic of anime. Shittiest blogging and wannabe experts community on the web. Slow as fucl.
ANN - normalfag centrale. Piracy, pantsu, incest, loli, fanservice, moe etc. bad BAD! Circlejerk of stuck up idiots making walls of text about how specific anime is ruined by single panty shot or how showing guns in it make it worse than Hitler.
Animesuki - decent place for untranslated LN discussion, many manga translators/japanese frequent it. Would be a decent place, however is hevily moderated and thus allows infestation of 12 years old kiddies, occasional Tumblr fags and other cancer.

Thus that leaves us with /a/ - where you can call a faggot faggot, everything is discussed, board moves fast and despite lots of cancer and trolls still better overal board then all other combined.

However if you look at other boards and see how slow they are / how little discussion actually happens, you realize that lots of normalfags go to /a/ for a sole reason its the only "fast" place in internet where you can post any topic and gets lots of repplies and discussion.

While even the most popular topic on MAL would have 10 pages, /a/ by than would haev 20 topics past bump limit.

>>100708027>wannabe experts community on the web
Oh dear fucking god this. Usually when I'm thinking of picking up an anime I google it and the first result is MAL, fair enough they usually give clear descriptions on a show. Go down to the comments, I'm expecting a "Good show 10/10." "It was okay, felt like it was lacking something here." etc. not some 4 paragraph long review on why this series is plain and okay.

>>100709545
Creative Corner is the most cancerous part of MAL by a large margin.
I remember there was this one kid who sporadically posted her k-pop fanfiction there. It was almost remarkable how terrible that shit was.

>>100709514>4 paragraph
It's worse than that at points.
When I was considering picking up C3bu after it's season finished, I expanded the reviews on its page and face-desked at the second one.
http://myanimelist.net/anime/17821/Stella_Jogakuin_Koutou-ka_C%C2%B3-bu

>>100709809> but it became too big a burden and I ran away to /a/ anime creation threads.
I ran away to /a/ because I was tired of getting banned.

Speaking of giving people tips, we spent 10+ pages trying to help that kid make her terrible fanfiction readable (it wuz typed lyk dis i sh1t u nt) and she spent 10+ pages rejecting every single suggestion.

Did anyone else started getting 3-day bans(without any warnings) for a stupid shit like funposting/typing an ironic smiley in your post or something that mods apparently deem as rayciss(which it isn't)?

>>100710088
that's cool, but don't you think that there are perhaps activities better suited for 30 year olds than complaining about children's websites for cartoons. they're literally children, of course the discussion isn't that interesting from an adult point of view

I actually didn't really get into anime like I am now until I was almost 20.

When I was 12-13 I watched some of the Toonami/AS stuff, but basically came to ignore it throughout middle and most of highschool, not out of fear/prejudice, but out of sheer ignorance of what was out there and how to go about finding it. I was way too busy with video games instead.

>>100710407
i'm not that much younger myself, but i think it's probably a good idea to strive for at least some level of self awareness and not sperg out about random anime websites aimed at kids and teens

>>100710282
I never knew that. That particular ban was definitely deserved, but I think it would be a good idea if posts were viewed in context as opposed to just by themselves. Something might appear to be ill-intentioned on it's own that really wasn't when taken in context or the opposite could also be true that something appears fine on its own until you see it in context.

People don't like to think of an average show as 5/10 because people subconsciously think of grades relative to school. From childhood we're taught unequivocally that 5/10 = 50% = failure. You'd need at least a solid C to not be seen as doing horrible, and even so many/most people consider Cs crappy. So likewise people just kind of plugged in the logic that a show needs to be 7/10 to be marginally okay, 8/10 to be average and 9+ to be good. Likewise accepting a 6/10 to them is analogous to accepting a D on a test as good, etc.

Because no one there is beat over the head with "don't grade this like you grade things at school" when they join they just assume that this is how ratings work by default, and since they already rated all their shit on that rubric, they aren't going to go redo everything just because one guy says that they should. Peoples' laziness / "but everyone else does it this way" will keep them from fixing flaws even when pointed out right to their face.

Why is the scanlation community so fragmented and why is it such a pain in the ass to find a series complete not on a fucking online reader.

Why the fuck are there no batches of manga chapters. I don't want to download 50 fucking rar files that I have to dig through your mediocre blogspot blog for and wait like five minutes each for whatever rapidshit clone they're hosted on to let me download from.

>>100710821
My average on MAL is 6.2 that's not including the stuff I dropped which I don't give a score to. The 1.2 pokints above average can be attributed mostly to me selecting stuff I'm interested in.

>>100710831>not on a fucking online reader.
Thats where you are retarded. Online readers are length good, mangafox times are gone. There is no reason to develop other direction. If anything, CR does now Mangastream too.

>>100711002
That view is either due to you being a faggot with ridiculous standards or simply because you don't actually watch good anime, which is often not what you're going to hear of unless you follow anime closely.

>>100710924
He's talking about individual rating. Overall, it's fine to have an average exceeding 5/10 since you'll most likely only watch and finish shows that you don't think are shit, hence more skewed to above 5/10.

>>100711071
In that case why use MAL at all? How is it "worth it" for anime?
To stroke your e-peen, of course, and it saddens me that manga is no longer relevant in determining the size of your e-peen.

>>100711065
I've been thinking people should rate things (anime, games etc) according to A/B/C/D/F. This is analogous to a 1-5 system, and can hit in-betweens such as B+ or C-. An average animu is a C grade, and people don't have a hard time agreeing that this is logical. Yet a C translates to 3/5 which can be rewritten as 6/10. Yet for some reason many people have a hard time actually giving things 6/10, because like was said, they see it like giving things a D, even though it fucking isn't.

Since we're familiar with letter grades, we should just do that instead of direct numeric because that clearly throws people off by default. Then again this is all semantics, if we all know that anything below 8/10 is shit according to a certain community or publication then it doesn't quite change things, it just makes it really pointless to even have number options below 5 or 6 if no one actually uses those (apart from 1/10 shitposting series they don't like).

>>100711250
for keeping track of what you've watched and to rate in order to get some sort of perspective on it. i got one myself not too long ago because i realized i had problems remembering what i've seen

>>100711206
Or you can just stop rating things in general? It's pretty pointless in the long run when most people conflate their pure entertainment, on top of any other number of metrics. Then there's the whole long running series/ sequel bias.

I don't even use my (now obsolete) ratings for recommending things to people. It's more "would this person like this show" rather than me just getting people to watch stuff I like.

>>100708027>you realize that lots of normalfags go to /a/ for a sole reason its the only "fast" place in internet where you can post any topic and gets lots of repplies and discussion
Honest to god this probably the only reason I browse the 4chains, and lately I've pretty much substituted it with gatecrashing IRC channels instead.

>>100712436
The same can be said of the so-called live action tv that airs on the average tv channel. Shitty sit-coms, or in the case of HBOs, "it must be mature because it's got tons of VIOLENCE and TITS in it" even though the plot are even less thought out than anime.